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Vista permanently stuck in sleep mode!

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Apparently a lot of people have had this problem, but I am yet to see any posts detailing the problem I have. I, like many others, have a problem with Vista not waking from sleep. The difference is that a reboot still will not bring it out of sleep mode. Everyone else seems to be able to reboot and wake it up. I have an Intel dp35dp motherboard w/a q6600 quad-core processor, 4 GB memory, 750 GB hd, and an 8800gts video card. So far, I have tried removing the motherboard battery, rebooting, different monitors, leaving it off for 36 hours, and a few others with no success. It simply will not wake up! I'm at a complete loss of ideas at this point. Everything worked great until I let it go to sleep the first time. Before that, I always powered it off when I was done. The funny part of all this is that I downloaded vista from technet subscriptions to try using it with Server 2008 and put it on brand new equipment. Now I can't even get into vista to get the PID required for help. Does anyone have any idea how to wake this up under these conditions? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Note: It includes a newly released BIOS update. I read the release note and it seems to have fixed some AHCI sleep mode issues.

2.Enter BIOS and then go to Power Management (or similar one) menu. Check if AHCI is enabled and sleep mode is correctly configured.

3.After the problem occurs, go to Event Viewer (eventvwr.msc) to check power- troubleshooter errors in Windows – System. The logs may tell the sources that prevent system from waking up.

Hope it helps!

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Note: It includes a newly released BIOS update. I read the release note and it seems to have fixed some AHCI sleep mode issues.

2.Enter BIOS and then go to Power Management (or similar one) menu. Check if AHCI is enabled and sleep mode is correctly configured.

3.After the problem occurs, go to Event Viewer (eventvwr.msc) to check power- troubleshooter errors in Windows – System. The logs may tell the sources that prevent system from waking up.

Hope it helps!

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Thank you very much! I will see if I can get into the BIOS to try it. I haven't been able to yet, as it stays in sleep even after reboot, or powering off. I will try a different video card to see if I still have the problems. If I don't, and can see the monitor, then I will try this to see if it is the case. Once again, thank you very much!

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